Found: Rehab Center From the Future

Click on the thumbnails below for a closer look at rehabilitation in the year 2019.

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This is the bulletin board at the entrance to a rehab center from the year 2019. Overeaters, alcoholics, gadgetholics, and body-mod addicts can all come here for help.

Photo: Daniel Salo

Twelve-step programs have been drying out alcoholics since 1935. But in attention-deficit 2019, slow 180s be damned; three-step programs exorcise the powerful urges of powerless drinkers in one-sixth the time.

Photo: Daniel Salo

We predict that some emotional eaters of the future will abuse the capsules, tablets, and powders promising good health. And that abuse can lead to build-up in the kidneys. But no sweat: They'll have nanomites to bite through the stones!

Photo: Daniel Salo

Confronting your shortcomings in a roomful of strangers swiftly loses its luster. Break away from the gut spilling and channel your frustrations into luminescent holiday art with the Fiber-Optic Basket-Weaving Club.

Photo: Daniel Salo

Body modification isn't all fun and grafts. It can have serious health ramifications (some lab rats implanted with RFIDs have developed cancer), not to mention emotional consequences. The cyborgs of the future will most certainly need a little support.

Photo: Daniel Salo

Gadgetholism is not a recognized disease or disorder yet. But we can expect that 10 years after the opening of America's first Internet addiction center, the allure of technology will only be stronger, uploading new antisocial behavioral traits into the human race.

Photo: Daniel Salo

A Blink-182 cover band is holding auditions in a room at the center, but technophiles need not apply for this pop-punk throwback.